The term used when a pregnant woman calls an ambulance because her contractions are every two minutes, but she doesn't have a single contraction during a thirty minute trip to hospital.
Usage:
She took the matern-a-taxi to get here, but she'll be taking her Dodge Caravan to get back home.
It is the gradual onset of the queasy and all-together gross feeling that follows the consumption a certain fast-food conglomerate's food. Most individuals are asymptomatic while consuming its products, but the sickness's latent effects often include a shallow depression, mild self-loathing, and an urge to bathe immediately. Some experts argue that the sickness is also accompanied by localized memory loss, as many victims often return to the restaurant within days, even hours, of their initial bout with the disease. What's more, the restaurant's signs gallingly boast about the number of people afflicted, often citing 99 billion cases of the sickness worldwide.
Usage:
Guy 1: Why did I eat all of this food? I feel like such a lowlife.
Guy 2: That's just the McSickness talking, man.
Meconium. It is the earliest stool of an infant. Unlike feces, meconium is made up of materials that are ingested while the fetus is in the uterus. Meconium is odorless and resembles tar.
Usage:
The infant's mec was passed in utero and was aspirated into the lungs.
Stands for Medical/Surgical. It's often used by nurses to denote either the specialty in which they work or simply the area of the hospital designated for these specialties.
Usage:
I'm resourcing tonight, but I know I'll be spending most of my time in the med-surg ICU.
Either a judgment that further medical treatment of a patient would have no useful result or a medical treatment whose success is possible although reasoning and experience suggest that it is highly improbable.
Medical students' syndrome is a temporary, hypochondria-like mental condition that strikes medical students, causing them to believe that they are suffering from the diseases that they're studying. By some reports, up to 80% of medical students experience it at some point as a result of studying such frightening diseases in such a highly suggestible environment.
Usage:
Professor: "I wonder how many of them will suffer medical students' syndrome this year."
To die. The term is based on the late 90's movie Meet Joe Black staring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins in which Joe Black, played by Pitt, is death incarnate.
Metastatic disease. It is the spread of a disease from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part, as in malignant tumor cells and infections.
Usage:
The patient has liver cancer, with mets to lung and kidneys.